I was looking for something to share with you over the weekend and had a post drafted on my new computer of 2 months when the unthinkable happened. After it updated I turned it off. And when I switched it back on it said It needed Recovery the whole system seems to have gone kaput..

So its back in the shop!.. Thankfully my old one that runs on steam is still working and so I looked around my archive and this title caught my eye..

What Went Wrong?..

But the interesting thing is, unlike last time when my computer lost everything.. I feel so detached and not bothered one little bit for the losses..
Why? Well, we only have to look around the world to see what REAL loss is…
Those caught in wars, those loosing loved ones, and the terrible earthquake in Italy where the whole town of AMATRICE which was completely destroyed.. Who are all held within my prayers

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Well said DW ! Great poem. And yes, you are so right about the loss of a computer. So trivial in the larger scheme of things. Sadly, they worked brilliantly as the addictive, distracting tools they created them to be. Now people no longer know how to write a complete sentence, communicate via a meaningful conversation, or how to spend much needed time in nature. Very sad indeed. The longer I stay away from mine the less I want to do with it. Who knows how long I will keep blogging but I can see now a great deal of life passes by unnoticed and unlived when one stays connected to the Internet 24/7….Enjoy life DW and have a splendid weekend…Much love…VK

Yes I have to agree with you VK, I spend far too many hours here for sure.. And I tend now to go on later in the evening when gardening hours are in darkness 🙂 You know I will be catching up eventually with your good self very soon my friend.. Now it really is time for me to close this machine.. Once I have answered all those comments here.. Love to you Sue xx DW xx

You have such beautiful thoughts, Sue. Yes, we all are so confined within ourselves, concerned about our small losses which are, in fact, negligible compared to the loss the world is suffering from every natural disaster.

Mother Nature doesn’t take revenge, she just finishes herself down and that seals the fate of humankind.

My prayers for those earthquake victims. Just after the Italy earthquake, here in Kolkata, India, we felt slight tremor for 5/6 seconds! Panic was everywhere and those few seconds reminded me how helpless we feel, when nature strikes.

My thoughts are with you Maniparna and all who experience such temors.. Here in the UK a few years ago we felt one which was only slight.. But it does shake you I agree..
And I love your thoughts also..”Mother Nature doesn’t take revenge, she just finishes herself down and that seals the fate of humankind. “.. So true.. Nature is evolving and moving all the time.. We who build our homes across these fault lines and next to rivers etc when she floods are the ones who get in the way of Natures movement.. They would not be such disasters had we not put ourselves there..

Many thanks again dear Maniparna.. Love and Healing thoughts your way xxx

Yes always raising my eyes upwards Eddie and will shortly be turning off here and tuning into those heavenly realms again as I go outdoors now the Sun is once again appearing from the rain clouds xxx Many thanks.. Enjoy your Sunday Eddie

I am sure that is sometimes why the Universe separates us from our devices, So that we can get grounded again with what is important in life… 🙂 I have spent around 3 hours already here and only just touching base with my comments let alone visit others.. I must learn to do as other do.. And only limit my responses to thank you lol.. 🙂 But that wouldn’t be the Dreamwalker’s Way lol :-).. Have a great weekend too Irene xxx Love to you xx ❤ and Thank YOU! 😉

Lovely poem. I too rely heavily on my computer but it’s a matter of perspective. There is a lot of changing and shifting going on in the world to bring us back to our sense of what real value is. My daughter has a phrase that I repeat often. “Everything is as it should be” It’s my perception of things that needs to be addressed. Have a lovely wonderfilled weekend, Sue. Hugs and hope for the computers complete recovery.

Lol thank you Marlene.. Yes my own daughter has a similar saying.. She says ” It is what it is”.. lol.. Your daughter is right.. All is as it should be, beacause otherwise it wouldn’t be.. simple as that.. :-).. And like you Marlene I agree this shift is teaching us true values to those who wish to See them..
Hope you are relaxing??? Enjoy its a holiday here tomorrow.. so a long weekend for the UK xxx

Yes They become like our right hand. And yes we miss them when they are not working as they should be.. Its taken me a few hours to get used to the keyboard again of my old one.. You should have seen the typo errors as I touch type lol..

“Lack a mother’s touch…” I, too, have wondered if the rampant greed in our world comes from the failure of family love. And yet, many people who were abused as children are loving people… Maybe forgiveness is the test of humanity. Thank you for always bringing us back to what is important, Sue.

Good luck with computer. Possibly helpful… free apps I think work well: AVAST anti-virus and CCleaner (safe downloads from CNET.com).

Yes JoAnn I know what you mean my friend. Sometimes I think my own generation who had hardly anything new when we grew up within often large families. We would work had and save before purchasing things. And we would do without until we had saved up..
Today’s generation wants everything Now and my generation in part has some responsibility for this too.. For as we went without, we wanted our children to have what we could afford.. This didn’t mean going into debt like today’s young folk. Today Credit card companies and banks throw loans out, to get them hooked into the Debt game. And Once hooked its very difficult for them to get off this treadmill.
People are searching for something, knowing there has to be more to life, They want distraction from their real lives or work and toil or sometimes from pure boredom. Be it through gadgets addictions or drug misuse.
Love is a key factor in what is missing.. And a key factor to remind them right now how to hold compassion is through what we are seeing happening in the world right now.
We are shifting our vibration but as we are all so caught up within it we do not see these changes for we are the Change.. Again you touched upon another great key.. That of forgiveness, Letting GO! Of Anger, hatred, revenge, jealousies, all are prominent in our learning and lessons.. Learning to Co-operate, share, UNITE, and get along as ONE in Harmony in Unity.
Thank you JoAnn for those wonderful thoughts.. and for the great advice about the AVAST anti-virus and CCleaner (safe downloads from CNET.com) I will most definitely look that up and read up on it.. Thank you and Love and Blessings Sue xx

I am sure dear Joss that you will be guided in those right choices and I am sure all will fall into place in Toronto for you as you send out your thoughts for a solution my friend.. Sending thoughts for that conclusion also Joss xxx

You made me giggle, I can imagine you sitting there, a little startled but in your wisdom shrug your shoulders and not give a dam… yes… as we remind ourselves of the loss that many people are now facing… But we know that it is all part of letting go of everything to uncover the seed of love that needs to be seen and embraced. Love to you sue and thanks for the wonderful poem you brought back to read x barbara

Yes Barbara as I mentioned to another commenter here, I was amazed at my lack of response.. I did kind of shrug my shoulders as I said oh well here we go again.. A lesson to repeat perhaps what I didn’t do before.. As I hung onto the possession of a thing.. Now I am seeing that lesson again in another light and have let it go, knowing as we put things into perspective it is not important in the scheme of things in this life.. Thank you Barbara… May we all learn these lessons well, as we Let GO and learn once again to all connect to the important stuff .. That of our Hearts and Unconditional Love..

I once lost 17,500 words of a childrens’ novel that I was seriously struggling with Sue ~ and I never managed to recover them. People kept giving me sympathy and advice but I felt as though a weight had been lifted from my shoulders and I could get on with more absorbing projects. And you are so right, with all that’s going on in the World ~ natural and man~made crises ~ how dare I moan? I do think that many people have been caught in a trap of wanting ‘more’, not knowing what it is they are seeking and thinking that they can buy a solution to that yearning, often with credit. But I am ever~hopeful that this discontent will work itself out and that we all begin to reach out to those in genuine need. 🙂

Hi Jacqueline, thank you for sharing that story with us.. Yes sometimes the Universe Knows best.. And decides to unburden us of our clutter and the needless weight we carry around with us.. I feel like that when I clear my email box from Updates of new posts which refuse to go down in numbers no matter how many I clear as I visit lol 🙂
I hope one day too my friend that folks will one day learn to Look UP! from their devices and Smile and Connect with those other Humans who they often bump into 🙂 in the real world on the streets haha.. We live in hope don’t we xxx ❤

Random geeky advice: I like to save everything in 2’s and I never save it on the drive the operating system is on. A flash drive, external hard drive or second internal drive, or even a dvd then in cloud storage, ie, dropbox, google drive or that useless onedrive

So sorry about your computer, Sue, that is definitely frustrating. But to be able to learn something valuable through those times is most important and you have shared a great message with us. Thank you, my friend, and I wish you a terrific weekend! Hugs

Bless you Lauren and Love your new logo picture, I really should get around to updating mine… 🙂 And yes we live and learn as we go through these lessons .. And still can’t quite understand just how calm and detached I am about the whole thing.. Showing I think how we are growing in our BEing of Letting Go..

I don’t know who first said, “Shit happens,” but it’s a great summary of how life unfolds. We have control only in our illusions. It is a bit over the top to limit ourselves to one tiny pockmark on the planet. For if there’s one positive thing about these fallible computers is the web – we really have no excuse to endlessly lament our lives. We have only to reach out to news sources that are not distorted by sensationalism to discover we are, by and large, pretty darned lucky most of the time. Perspective is everything. Aloha, dear one ❤

Yes we are Very blessed Bela I agree my friend with oh so many things in life.. And I am forever grateful as I look around the world seeing what others have to contend with.. It puts everything in my life into perspective.. Wishing you a blessed weekend also Bela xx

Awww, Sue! Technology can be so annoying … I have similar issues with my internet service. I could bake a cake many evenings while waiting for simple tasks to load!! Sending you many blessings and love — wishing you a great upcoming week. ❤

That must be frustrating too Becca.. I had thought my old PC quite good until I got used to the speed of the loading with my new one. Now making a cake 🙂 sounds like it can take a long long time.. But baking is far better than watching and waiting 🙂 for sure.. Thank you BEcca.. Love and big hugs your way too my friend xx

Thank you Dear Renee.. I hadn’t realised how much slower my old PC was until after getting used to my new one. 🙂 All things will work out 🙂 and I am not letting Technology wear me down LOL.. Too many other interesting things in the world to focus upon.. I hope you are well and when I get sorted in my comments Renee I will be visiting to see how you are doing xxx

Lovely poem Sue and a very good reminder not to dwell.
My new computer windows 10 , finding my way around and discovered I’d lost all my photo’s. Been trying to track them down in here .
Didn’t bother me as much as I would have thought, strange that.
Enjoy your weekend Sue
Hugs
Sheila xx

Yes Sheila it took me around a week to explore W 10 and there are still things I dare not click onto or agree too 🙂 as I am so unsure of what they are. When I get my PC back I will have to start all over again … Sigh.. but its nothing is it when we really put what some people are facing in their lives.. xxx You too, enjoy your Bank Holiday.. trying to catch up with my comments now as I will be out all day tomorrow.. 🙂 Hugs dear Sheila xxx Love Sue ❤

Beautiful poem, dear Sue! Yes…computers. I had my own glitches with my website and computer and you know what? I thought about the perspective, too. How coudl I get mad when Italy just had an earthquake and Syria is in a civil war, and people don’t have drinking water? It definitely makes you think.
Thank you for sharing! xo

That is so annoying when that happens, but i hope you get the computer situation sorted soon – thankfully my new computer is doing ok. Crank up the old steam one and hopefully you will have the new one back soon.

Hi Sue! I think I commented on your original poem about tech issues. Hmmm… I meant my comment to go here. There’s really a great connection you made here about the glitches that come up and the questions that we ask ourselves. Again, I am glad that we can see past the glitches enough, on most days, just enough, to get through it all with each other. Best of Luck, Lots of Love, Ka

Thank you Ka.. the glitches come to test us.. And really this is nothing within the scheme of things world wide we see.. Still no new PC back yet.. But had lots of fun with my granddaughter which is a huge bonus.. xxx Thank you for those well wishes ❤ Hugs back x

Great poem Sue. But I’m sorry to hear about your newest computer woes. It seems the technical God’s are testing you in this wonky full moon waning with the added retrograde. That’s awful, but as you said, it’s a tiny blip in the scheme of so much greater woes in the world. So glad you had your faithful steamer to fall back on. 🙂 xoxo

Hi dear Debby, yes it is but a blip and still firing up the old steam to get here.. Although this is the first time its been switched on all week as I have had a little girl to keep me busy some days, so my days have been full of princess’s and magical stories with dress ups and picnics.. I thought there may well be some heavenly body of planets in the mix again.. Why am I not surprised.. And Yes the tech Gods seem to be testing, though if they thought to cause me stress, this time around I was so calm it even amazed me.. 🙂 Even the small fortune I spent on softwear made no impact either.. So I hope I passed the test LOL.. because I do not wish to keep repeating it :-D.. And yes its nothing at all compared with the woes in the world .. So I am very blessed.. ❤

Just letting you be the first to know Debby, got my PC back today. and spent 3 hours uploading back softwear and files.. It was a Windows update it didn’t like.. Set back to factory settings.. When I asked Why it did it, they don’t know.. Seems I was the unlucky few it can happen to. 😦 .. I must be getting better, as this time I didn’t need to ring online support LOL…xx Hugs

Wow Sue! A Windows update created the havoc? Now I forget, is your new pc on Windows 10? Because if so, that wouldn’t surprise me. 😦 But so glad you’re getting better at it, practice makes perfect, lol 🙂 xo

Hi Debby, yes its a Windows 10 update.. It had updated to the Anniversary Package.. It didnt give you the option either to accept or decline these updates.. And you do not know what it’s now doing with updates not like on my Vista when it always asked and you saw what the updates were for.. That is annoying!.. As are many of the Apps that come with it.. 🙂 But yes still smiling, and taking one day at a time.. as I get to grips with it all again. I have hardly been anywhere visiting on WP, just answering comments .. But its raining this afternoon.. So here I am again 🙂 xxx

It’s so annoying that Microsoft takes such liberties with our computers. Now you’ve scared me with this new anniversary update. I’m going to change my update settings to alert me of this. Did you know you can go to your update settings and choose how you’d like your updates? You can change from automatic to manual. That’s what I’m going to do on my windows 10 computer now. You just have to make sure you check your update regularly, make sure you don’t see that weird update, tick the ones you want to update and install. 🙂 xo

Thank you dear Debby I will go into my settings now and have a look see.. The darn thing did an update or two this morning again.. I had the Windows is configuring sign on for over an hour as it did its thing with do not switch off your computer while in progress.. I thought it was another crash in progress for sure.. I didn’t stess though.. I got on my guitar instead while waiting.. After an hour of seeing those the little circle rise and fall it finally restarted.. I had none of this problems with my old PC .. I will go look now xx

This poem reminds me of a saying ‘growth and decay go hand in hand.’ While we exult at the vaulting growth of world around us in almost all fields, erosion and exploitation of the finer values of life have quietly surrendered themselves. Yes, we may be having the answers in our minds but who bothers to listen to them? It is a paradoxical world and we are drifting away from each other.
Thanks for profoundly beautiful thoughts Sue. Love and hugs.

Yes one step forward and two steps backwards as the saying often goes.. But really in the scheme of things its really nothing is it when we see the plight of human suffering as we are witnessing right now world wide.. Thank you dear Balroop for reading my poem.. We who pen our thoughts keep on trying to bring unity via what resonates deep within our minds.. Living in our world of duality I agree both growth and decay go hand in hand.. I hope we do our part in adding to its growth.. So as to keep the balance from tipping the scales.. xxx Love and thank you Balroop Your own profound thoughts are so welcome xx ❤ Love Sue

Hi, I’m new here, but I really liked your post 🙂
Sorry that your PC’s giving you trouble. I hope it’ll be sorted out soon. And I agree with you, real problems are the ones that people stuck in dangerous and inhumane situations fail. Your post helped me also realise this and now I’m feeling better about my current problems too.
I’m glad I stumbled upon your blog. Looking forward to reading more posts by you 🙂

Welcome Heena, and thank you for taking the time to read and leave me your kind comment.. Yes life as a habbit of putting things into perspective for us.. And often when we step back, to view life perhaps through others eyes as to their problems.. Our own are much less a mountain to climb.. I am pleased you stumbled here too and I hope to soon visit your own Many thanks again.. Blessings to you Sue ❤

I completely agree with you 🙂
I remembered a quote when i read this “Love people, not things; use things, not people” . its really good , isn’t it?? 😀

I would like to share a story of mine as well.. two years back while I was travelling in bus someone stole my mobile! When i realized my mobile wasn’t in my pocket , i was not sure whether it was stolen or did i drop it! But as i searched for it for sometime that day, i realized i was not worried that i lost it and it was just a thing i lost. My thought was on the case that had as it was given to me by one of my cousins!

I did not use mobile for three four days and i really felt good without a mobile in hand. I felt i had lot of time in hand!! But i had to get one later on the 5th day due to pressure from family and office as they are not able to reach me.

Same as you I felt ‘the mobile is only a Thing after all..’ 🙂

Came to wordpress after a long time.. Really liked the post.. Thank you
Hope you are doing good… Take care, keep smiling 🙂

Thank you Aneesh for sharing that story.. Yes we often place too much on Things rather than people.. And not having that device/connection can indeed be liberating and can give the sense of freedom from being tied to gadgets often at the beck and call of others..
Good to see you again my friend I hope to catch up too in the very near future.. xxx Oh and I am smiling for sure 😀

Hi Sue, that is a great post in more ways than one, we lose things in life and somehow life goes on, yet in today’s modern world, the loss of the computer can be seen as a catastrophe, seeing as how it has become the great means of communication, but still life goes on and Mankind finds a way around it.
We lose our letterbox and the Postie can’t deliver, we find another way.
Cheers.

This is so very deep and true ~ perspective can take what seems like a calamity and turn it into something like you’ve done here. Wishing you the very best, and from the tone and spirit of your words you’ve got the perspective bit down right. Take care and enjoy the weekend.

Thank you Randall.. yes all a matter of perspective.. Nothing that is life threatening and I so thank you for stopping by.. Loved your cowgirl post too Randall.. Now there is where the Spirit of Living is.. I so enjoyed your own perspective on your post 🙂 Thank you and enjoy your weekend also.. Blessings your way to you and yours
Sue

I had my computer get blown up (fried) during a power outage, even though I had a surge protector on it, the good news is that even though it was completely broken, a computer store was able to retrieve all of my data and put it on an external hard-drive so that when my new computer arrived, I just transferred everything into it from the external hard-drive. And it didn’t cost anything for the service, it came as a complimentary gift for buying the external hard-drive, idk, maybe that can work for you as well. ❤️

Bless you Genie.. How good of that store to do that for you.. I backed up everything to an external hard drive luckily with my old PC.. And this one I was also backing up externally too.. So I have now retrieved most things I want back on my PC..
Thank you Genie.. Now I know why I saw the re-follow link from you.. 🙂 I wish your new PC well.. And will be around to catch hopefully soon.. xx ❤ Hugs your way xx And Thank you!

I chose to leave my comment here even though I did click to read the original. Oh, Sue, how eloquently you express the conditions of our world today. So many have lost the connection to both Mother and to one another. The continual outcry from Mother as She unleashes powerful violence escalates which only reflects the violence of mankind. When will man understand that ALL is connected and that every act, every thought, every ill will, is felt and experienced by Mother and all Living Beings? Every time I go for a hike when I see a newly downed tree, my Heart skips a beat and I feel sad, sending that tree Love on its continued Journey. I touch the trees thanking them for their Presence. I talk to the Forest all the time and send It Gratitude for healing me. I see the spiraling madness of this world and then I see incidences of Kindness where those who “get it” are living the Love. May all of us who work together for the Good, may that Good catch on Fire to bring a massive Movement of Love across the globe. Beautiful beautiful post, dear friend!! Your thoughts are Divine. Much Love, ❤

Hi Amy thank you my friend for that wonderful heartfelt comment.. Yes I too get so sad when I see trees cut down in their prime for no reason.. A few months back our local council authority had a spree of cutting down prime trees along the roadsides.. I couldn’t believe the destruction they caused.
Yes each thought and action goes out in vibration and yes our Earth Mother is All feeling.. I even speak to the weeds as I pick them and give thanks to my Dahlias as I cut them for cut flowers..
We who are in tune with Nature see how being in gratitude and sending love is connecting with our Mother.. There are many who work for the good Amy.. We do not get to hear about them.. We only get to learn of the Bad.. So take heart.. There is a great deal of LOVE across the world.. May we always shine our Lights around the globe for Unity and Peace..
Love to you my precious friend ❤ xxx

LOVE your new gravatar, Sue! It is so good to see YOU! 🙂 ❤ And yes I do know there are those in the world who Love Mother. I meet them in the forest and in the parks. There is a "silent movement" happening right now that is transforming this world. That movement is founded in Love. 🙂 ❤

Yes it is Amy.. So many rainbow warriors of Light out there all seeding the world with LOVE.. We keep on keeping on.. And I KNOW we are winning.. xxx And thank you over the gravatar.. I thought it time I changed it.. I have been playing with my theme and backgrounds this morning.. L0l 🙂 ❤

You are right on the money, Sue! I can’t tell you how many times I am able to shift from self pity to gratitude when I think of someone (and there is ALWAYS someone) who is much worse off than I. Hope your computer woes are fixed…I also have an oldie but goodie…and have been holding off on purchasing a new one 😉 💛

Hold off as long as you can.. but do do an external back up.. These new laptops have no harddrive back ups, clever as they come programmed wanting you to perchase space with the maker of the PC.. And thank you so far shussssh saying this very quietly.. all seems well at the moment.. Shusssh! 🙂

So true! We don’t realize what we don’t need until it’s gone. When I was finally forced to buy a new computer (looooooong story), I thought I’d have to transfer everything from my old one, either by direct transfer or by using an external hard drive. Not so! I’m simply transferring a few things here and there using a thumb drive. I’m amazed at the amount of “stuff” I don’t need. Thoreau was right: “Simplify!” Wonderful post, Sue 🙂

Thank you Tina I am delighted you are exploring my blog, and yes life lessons come in various guises lol.. 🙂 And I learn every day.. We just need to keep following the ‘Signs’ which come our way 🙂 Thank you

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